The Spirit & The Spiritual Realm

3 Realms Chart

Human Spirit?

The scriptures shed surprisingly little light on this issue, except that one of the purposes of the Word is to divide between an individual’s spirit and soul and clearly differentiates between the two.

Spirit of God

When we speak of something in terms of its being “spiritual,” what we are really saying is that it has a spiritual source and spiritual attributes. If like begets like, and Spirit begets Spirit, what is true of the seed is true of what that seed grows into, even if it appears different.

Spiritual Senses

The spiritual realm has its own set of senses that function there. When God originally created Adam in the garden, He breathed into them His own life; He made them a living soul. All their needs were met just by being with the Living God. We have transferred our ideas of our senses as we experience them today onto the senses Adam and Eve must have experienced with God in the garden. They walked with Him, spoke with Him, saw, felt, heard and probably even smelled His presence, and were heard, etc., by Him in return. Who knows what it was truly like? But we do know that after they sinned, and God’s Spirit was withdrawn from them, they no longer had the senses necessary to commune with Him on the level that truly satisfied their deepest needs.

Spiritual Environment

This is where God dwells, and because we have not had our spiritual senses tuned, we often don’t realize the reality of where we already are, and so often misunderstand what our Father is doing and saying.

Spiritual Warfare

The only kind of “spiritual” warfare going on now is actually between the spiritual and another realm, either the natural, the supernatural or both. Even these battles are completely under God’s control.